House of Hellish Harlots - Experimental
Added 2023-07-12 10:55:51 +0000 UTCThis is where dozy Hydra remembers he has a website for House of Hellish Harlots and can put experimental versions up there rather than fiddling around with sending people .zip files.
I've added an experimental tab at the end of the menu. This page should give people access to the experimental versions I'm playing around with.
Be warned it's very very hacky.
I'm still very much a novice on the web development side of things. My current demo doesn't play very well with the Embed Twine add-on I was using to embed it in WordPress. As a hack I uploaded the raw .html file to my wordpress directory and set the button to link to it directly and open in a new tab. It's very clumsy, but works (I hope).
Everyone should now be able to try it out. It is hacky and not very optimised in terms of picture size. It should give an impression of what I'm aiming for.
I'll continue to keep tinkering with it until I get a layout and look that works for everyone (or as close as I can get).
Here's a link to the section:
https://houseofhellishharlots.com/experimental/
Any feedback gratefully accepted.
Also, as I'm massively out-of-my-depth with a lot of this, any helpful advice on the webdev side would be really useful. I'm pretty sure I'm doing some stuff obviously and clearly wrong. :D
Comments
Working for me on mobile! :) Love how it looks too!
Smith lfarrel
2023-07-12 13:12:39 +0000 UTCIt works for me and it is excellent Hydra. I like the fact that it's feeling more like a video game because sometimes I feel like I'm reading more of an "interactive novel" and not playing a game, that's that's why this is a very good addition to the HoHH. I have a Discord, tell me when yours ready dude! :)
Najee
2023-07-12 13:01:59 +0000 UTCWorking is a good start! I lean more to black text on white background, but that will probably go to majority preference or maybe a toggle to have both. Text and text background are set in one place, so it shouldn't be too hard to be changed in settings. I might try out the blur options on the backgrounds. The pictures are upscaled from AI-generation. Backgrounds are in a odd place. That's probably the best place to use AI art as they require a lot of fiddly detail (therefore expensive to commission) and I'd rather put the limited resources to paying for good harlot art. However, Steam have adopted a no AI policy, which means I'd need to get them overhauled at some point. They'll probably be the last things to get replaced, if at all, as they sort of do a good enough job at the moment. The UI elements... don't. They do a job of representing where the UI elements will be going, but they currently look pretty bad. That will be the first thing I hire an artist for! Semen gauge won't have any numbers (unless a certain charm is equipped - and I'll likely have those incorporated into the art as a separate 'base' piece. Round counter won't need them (will be a sprite map of 13-hour clock face). Coins and mulligan tokens will, so I'll have to get the fonts and positioning correct there. Discord is coming. I've been getting over my phobia of social media by hanging out on the Inn Elysium discord. That's given me a rough idea of what to set up for this project. Maybe in a couple of weeks after I've done the first round of tweaks to the demo on the website.
Many-Eyed Hydra
2023-07-12 12:00:14 +0000 UTCIt works!! :D I really enjoy the new UI and those small gimmicks like the cum animation and artwork for every character ^w^ makes it a lot more enjoyable. There's obviously still lots to improve, like.. I'd personally love for the whole layout to be made dark-mode focused. Meaning the text-area should be black with a opacity of 0.8 for example. Font color should be white / gray so it's easier on the eyes. I'd also say that adding a filter to the background image would make it less apparent that they're low resolution. ( CSS would be something like.. filter: blur(5px); ) Positioning of numbers on their UI elements should also be overhauled because the left bars / menus look a little dorky x3 Also, I'll end this feedback with my yearly plead towards you to create a Discord server for more direct feedback with more elaborate descriptions etc. xD
Noeru
2023-07-12 11:31:52 +0000 UTC
